sell short

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The fund is known as a 130/30 fund, and the concept is that if you give me $100, I buy attractive names, then sell short $30 worth of stocks we think will underperform.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

To duplicate that return yourself, you would need to buy the highest-momentum stocks and simultaneously sell short an equal dollar amount of the biggest losers.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 22, 2026

We underestimate how pleasant the exchange will be—for us and for our counterpart—and sell short our conversational chops.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

The first way that shorts benefit from stock watering is that millions of new shares become available to sell short.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2024

The various floors, or tranches, of subprime mortgage bonds all had one thing in common: The bonds were impossible to sell short.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis